Australian IT: Bad Form

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I love a good cynical laugh, especially at the expense of some ignoramus in the law around Australia more than most, but this article from AustralianIT is just headline grabbing nonsense. Most of the article has nothing to do with the headline, "Judge says Keep IT simple, stupid". The rest of the article is just loose change about a new MySpace for dogs, Florida electoral machinery, and other fluff.

The excerpt about the judge is taken (supposedly) taken from Annova. Yet there is no link. Annova functions in Australia as a distributor and an eBay store. They are an electronics retailer from the UK.
The story did the rounds in the UK and then got picked up by The Australian and even an aussie student's forum post.
The student's forum post and the AustralianIT story have an important point in common: Neither indicates that this is a UK judge. What is sad to find is this man is also a very learned QC who even writes regularly for medical journals. For a man who doesn't know what a website is, his career is all over the Internet.

This sort of loose journalistic effort only feeds the fires of those who see the Internet as the enemy. And I resent this sort of thing even more coming from AustralianIT, which has been an important resource for me to learn about IT and the Internet in Australia.

Now this is from Annova, picked up by TimmyB on Oreilly, and it is wryly funny.

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